Mother ‘shut son, 5, in cupboard and sealed it with sellotape while she went on trito Blackpool’

Youngster was also allegedly beaten over the head with a metal pole and a stiletto heel

By TOM GILLESPIE

12th July 2016, 8:25 am

Updated: 12th July 2016, 11:05 am

A CRUEL mother locked her naked five-year-old son in a cupboard for more than ten hours while the family went on a day trip to Blackpool, a court heard.

The mum is also alleged to have struck the boy in the head with a stiletto before trying to close the wound with super glue.

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The boy's mum and her partner are on trial at Bradford Crown Court

His 40-year-old mum and her female friend are on trial denying 21 months of cruelty and neglect against him.

The boy was also sellotaped in the cupboard when they went shopping, beaten with a metal pole and struck over the head with the shoe, prosecutor Ian Howard told a jury at Bradford Crown Court.

When his head was gashed by the blow from the shoe, his mum used glue stick the wound together instead of taking him to hospital, the court head.

The youngster was allegedly left naked and with just chocolates and sweets when his mum and her partner went on the ten-hour trip to Blackpool, it is alleged.

The boy’s mother, from Bradford, West Yorks, denies two offences of child cruelty, between August, 2012, and April, 2014.

Her friend, in her late 20s and also from Bradford, pleads not guilty to two similar charges of child cruelty and two allegations of unlawfully wounding the child.

Mr Howard said the women, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the boy, were arrested after doctors at Bradford Royal Infirmary suspected that a cut to his chin and weals on his back and arm were non-accidental.